DDNS - allow-updates

[Cricket Liu]

> Newbie question.
>
> In setting up a test lab, private network (192.168.241.x), I have
installed
> BIND 8.2.2-P5 on a sparc running solaris 7.  DNS is working fine
currently,
> but I want to test the DDNS capabilities of BIND in a Win2k environment.
> This will be the only DNS server on the network(192.168.241.60).  In the
> named.conf file, I have added the "allow-update" statement in the
> appropriate area, but do not know what address to place between the
braces.
> DHCP will be provided by an NT server.
>
> In O'Reilly's "DNS and BIND"(great book btw), it states that by default,
> BIND 8 does not allow dynamic updates from authoritive zones...you add
> allow-update substatement to the zone statement for the zone you'd like to
> allow update to.  But what would be providing updates??

Your Windows 2000 DHCP server and possibly Windows 2000
DHCP clients.

cricket